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The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Nowadays, happenings are sprinkled throughout April and combined with other events, such as National Park Week. Many people (I’m one of them) believe that every day is Earth Day. So give some thought to how you want to mark the day because climate change is the defining environmental threat of our time. Here are eight events not to miss.
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1. President Biden and 40 world leaders will discuss climate change and you’re invited. In case you haven’t been following along, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement (a 2016 international treaty that seeks to limit global warming) on the first day he was in office. Later, Biden set a time for leaders to join him in an international summit “to galvanize efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis,” according to a White House statement. That time is now. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, China’s President Xi Jinping
Always in Season/ Mike Jacobs: House finches sing to greet the spring
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Raptor Rapture Across South Jersey
The springtime migration of raptors through, or to, southern New Jersey is happening, brought to light with first hearing, then seeing, an osprey make a dive into the ICW while plugging for stripers behind Ocean City. In a not-so-rare miss, the “fish hawk” took off, giving a body shake to rid its feathers of water, and then beat wings down the waterway, looking for another possible victim.
“Oh, they’ve arrived, mate. It might be a wee bit early by a few days, but I’ve seen osprey down here as early as the second week in March,” said Raptor ID Guide author Richard Crossley in his distinctive English accent. Crossley, who recently moved to California from his longtime Cape May abode to research and write a guide to western birds, has chronicled ospreys arriving in the peninsula county for several decades. Within a few days to either side, mid-March is the time when this sizable (60-63 inch wingspan and weighing 2.5-3 lbs.) fish eating ra
The tree sparrow is another of those northern finches, but it is more consistently reliable as a migrant in our area. It breeds in the high Arctic, mostly north of the 60th parallel of latitude, which forms the northern boundary of Manitoba. Its winter range extends roughly from the international border southward to the Red River Valley – the other Red River, the one that forms the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma.
Since our Red River lies pretty much halfway between nesting and winter ranges, the species is quite common here. It is an early spring migrant, sometimes arriving by the end of March, and a late fall migrant, with stragglers remaining in the area past the winter holidays. That means the American tree sparrow shows up pretty consistently on area winter bird counts.
Whale in the sky super plane spotted circling East Midlands Airport
The giant Beluga Airbus XL super-transporter certainly makes an impression
Whale in the Sky - The colossal Beluga Airbus XL on its return to East Midlands Airport (Image: Phil Stanway)
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